I'm Back! Finally ready to write again! Thanks for sticking with the story during my awful writers block period! I have way more time to write now coz I just got into college which means senioritus is ready to set in. Anyway..story time!
Just then Nick and Melissa walked in.
"Oi James, can I use your bedroom?" Nick asked quickly.
"Hell no!" James said.
"Um..too late.." Nick said shifting his eyes and then darting out into the party. James ran around Clare and followed him.
"Clare, hot guys!" Melissa said grabbing her arm and dragging her outside. Clare was still disoriented and confused, her mind seemed to be living about 5 minutes earlier than her body was, or maybe she was just fixated on what happened, Either way she needed a minute. Strobe lights weren't really helping and Melissa had dragged her right into the heart of the party. Clare had neither to mental nor physical strength to push her way back to the kitchen, so instead she ambled to the nearest couch and sat down. What the fuck was in the cocktail? Did people's tolerance to alcohol grow every generation? Clare closed her eyes for a second, but then couldn't get them open. She tried and failed. Exhausted, she rested her head on the arm of the couch.
When she opened her eyes the strobe lights were out. There was still a colour changing spot rotating around the room and black light though. The music was slower. There were only a few people left in the room, couples, dancing together. Clare couldn't focus well at the moment but she couldn't recognize anyone except James' makeout buddy and a guy who was probably her boyfriend. Then all of a sudden the music stopped and the lights stoped moving. Slowly a dim yellow glow filled the room. Then she saw James. She couldn't hear him for some reason, but he waved goodbye to the people still in the room. They left, one of the guys returned and helped James drag an unconscious man towards the door. Clare heard the door close and James walked right up to her.
"Hey." He said sheepishly.
"Hi." She said, not knowing what else to say.
"I'm going to assume 21st century alcohol was watered down.." James smiled.
"Clearly.." Clare muttered. She sat up quite ungracefully. "I'l go upstairs." She began to stand up.
"Oh..I don't think you want to do that.." James said, his face screwed up into a cute grimace. "There was some weird stuff happening up there.."
"Great" Clare sighed. "I'll just sleep here then."
"Oh no..I'm gonna ask Shauna to clean up, I really don't think you want to be here when that happens.." James smiled.
Clare did not have the mental capacity to register what he was saying, so she simply nodded.
"Okay you drunk…let's go.." James smiled. He grabbed onto Clare and picked her up. He carried her to his room. Clare saw an unmade bed.
"Fucking Nick." James sighed. "Shauna, could you please?" James asked politely.
Shauna's sultry voice filled the air. "Oh James..the thing's Ive seen tonight.."
"Im sorry S." He said with a fake sigh.
Clare heard the some mechanical whirring but wasn't looking at the bed. By the time she turned her head, the bed was made. James put her down and then lay down beside her. There was something about the way they were positioned that made the situation not awkward at all.
"So what exactly happens when you clean a house?" Clare asked sleepily.
"I dunno, I never dared to look, I hear it's frightening.." James said with a smile.
Clare could hear what sounded like the crashing of waves coming from outside the room.
Then suddenly, Clare began to laugh. In fact, she couldn't stop. The whole situation she was in started to seem so ridiculous. She went a thousand years in the future, happened to shack up with some hot guy who was now lying next to her in bed?
"Why are you laughing?" James asked, eyebrows raised.
"Oh this is so ridiculous!" Clare said between hysterical giggles.
"What is?" James asked.
"This whole thing..the next thing I know we'll be having sex..and then willy wonka will pop out of the chimney and wrestle a giant M&M.." Clare laughed. She had no idea what she was saying.
"Who's Willy Wonka?"James asked.
"This candy guy.." Clare replied.
"oh..well I don't have a chimney so that's probably not going to happen..the sex part can though.."
If he had said it just a few second earlier Clare would not have heard it. But she did, in between her laughter she did, and it made her stop.
"Say what?" She asked trying to suppress a laugh the way a five year old would when an adult is yelling at them for eating candy.
James shrugged. "Lets have sex, it would definitely help get rid of the sexual tension that you know we have," He winked.
"Oh wow..future girls really go for that?" Clare asked, shocked but smiling.
"Why wouldn't they?"